Fringe - Episode 4.17 - Casting Call

Fringe - Episode 4.17 - Casting Call
Posted by DarkUFO
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 


FRINGE, Episode #417
Director: David Moxness
Writers: David Fury, Rick Orci, Matt Pitts
Shoot Dates: On or about Feb 1-14
Location: Vancouver

[MAN #1] Caucasian. 40s. A lonely and disheveled man. Someone may confuse him as a homeless man. Guest Star

[MAN #2] Non Caucasian. 20s. He's a street punk. Guest Star


See the original SpoilerTV post here.

fo note:Thanks to DarkUFO for posting this.
            I'm pretty sure "Rick Orci" is  JR Orci, who co-wrote The Ghost Network,  The Transformation,
            Unleashed, The Road Not Taken, and Novation(some of my favorite episodes).
            I hope these 3 men writing together means there will be some good comedic moments in this

           episode. :)


         

'Fringe' Producers Talk Love Stories, Olivia's Destiny And The Return of David Robert Jones

'Fringe' Producers Talk Love Stories, Olivia's Destiny And The Return of David Robert Jones 
First Posted: 1/20/12 04:14 PM ET Updated: 1/20/12 11:02 PM ET
by Laura Prudom

 Last week's "Fringe" brought the sci-fi drama back from hiatus with a bang, and according to executive producers Jeff Pinkner and Joel Wyman, it only gets better from here.

During our in-depth phone interview, the pair discussed the show's chances of renewal (read the first part of our conversation here) and dropped a few tantalizing hints about what's coming up for the "Fringe" characters. We talked about Peter's incredible journey through multiple universes, Olivia and Lincoln's growing connection, and what the return of David Robert Jones means for our heroes.

Read on, but beware: Spoilers ahead.

I think it's safe to say that most fans are invested in "our" Olivia and Peter and, similarly, Peter and Walter's relationship at the core of the show. Peter's dream sequence in "Back to Where You've Never Been" is heartbreaking, because I think the audience has been missing that dynamic just as much as Peter has. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for those fans, or is Peter being trapped in the wrong place something we should expect for a bit longer?
Jeff Pinkner: Yeah, that dynamic that you mentioned is very much what we're playing. The emotional feeling that it seems like you're having is really sort of like healthy and appropriate. We want the audience, like Peter, to feel this sense of longing and this desire to return -- not in an effort to frustrate the audience, but it shows the weight of those relationships. If it weren't for this feeling of loss, then it's sort of like Peter's existence with those characters would have meant nothing. We're playing that in counterpoint to the relationships he's forming with these characters. The next couple episodes are really sort of important and meaningful along that axis.
Joel Wyman: I'm absolutely thrilled that you said what you did about Peter, and you made that observation that the audience is sort of like with him, because that also was something that's deliberate. We've had times in the show where you're with Walter, and everybody's sort of perpetrating the secret on Peter. [At those times,] everybody seemed to know everything, and Peter was the person who was in the dark. ... This year, we're going in a completely different direction where the audience is more together with Peter's perspective. When Peter is saying this stuff happened, the audience should be saying, "Yes, it did!"


I'm kind of torn, because I'm actually loving the burgeoning chemistry between the yellow universe's Olivia and Lincoln, but only because I don't believe that she's our Olivia. I guess I want her to have her cake and eat it in every timeline!
JW: Oh, great! That's awesome. We're happy to hear that!
JP: So do we! And Peter recognizes that this isn't his Olivia. We're playing the idea that he sort of blesses what he sees as a burgeoning relationship, whether it be romantic or just friendship between Lincoln and Olivia, which only makes it that much harder for him. One of the things that we thought was really kind of exciting and cool is that Peter is longing for a woman, and here is an almost facsimile version of her that he's spending every day with, and yet it's not her, which only makes that longing that much more again.


This week's episode shares somewhat troubling truths about the alt-verse's Broyles, since he seems to be working with David Robert Jones. Is everything as sinister as it appears?
JW: I mean, if we would have told you, "Hey, coming up on 'Fringe' in a couple of weeks, Olivia and Peter are going to be involved in a love triangle," your mind would go to a place where you would probably think there's going to be another element. But because this is "Fringe," we're allowed to make the love triangle consist of two of the same person! So you always get a little leeway to surprise people with some of your choices that seem illogical on the first blush, but once you actually look at them, you realize, of course, this is "Fringe" ... anything can happen.

Maybe, suffice it to say, nothing is ever as it seems. But sometimes, it is as it seems, but with caveats. Without spoiling anything, this portion of the season going forward and this next suite of episodes is going to definitely change the perception of a lot of things that you thought that you knew. We'll open up the doors for possibilities of what's coming down the road. Hopefully, everybody will be as intrigued as we want you to be. There's a lot of great answers coming up. Along with not wanting to pull the old trick where everything disappears and nothing is actually real, another thing that sort of bothers us together as a team [is] when there's so many questions asked, and it seems like the questions are bigger than the answers. You can just keep out-clevering yourself with these questions that really don't have any answers. ... We're fans of answers. We want to reward our viewers with answers. There's a lot of them coming up.

JP: And ... David Robert Jones is back, which is just endlessly entertaining and delightful. Oh my god, he's spectacular. After his character died, Jared [Harris] came to us and was like, "I love this show -- I want to come back." As Joel said, this being "Fringe," we found a really organic way to bring him back. His character's return sort of speaks to the very story we're telling this year, which is how things are similar and yet different in this timeline.

Read the entire Huff Post TV article here.

'Grimm,' 'Vampire Diaries,' 'The Mentalist,' 'How I Met Your Mother': Find out what's next in the Spoiler Room

Inside TV
by Sandra Gonzalez
Jan 20, 2012
11:52 AM ET


Fringe BLEW MY MIND last week. Now, that’s how you return after being on hiatus. It was engaging and had more twists in an hour than most shows have over many seasons. Any scoop, Sandra? – Benjamin


The observer’s bleak message that Olivia’s fate is sealed should be treated as the ultimate truth says EP Jeff Pinkner. “He has seen the future and all possible futures. He said it, so we have to take it as gospel. We can’t reveal too much more without giving away a lot,” he teases. But fellow bossman Joel Wyman adds, “It’s really creepy knowing that he said it. Because watching, around every corner, around every turn, it could happen. That’s what we really liked about it. Every situation she goes into, from walking across the street to taking down a Fringe freak, she could be killed.”

It was nice to see the change in Walternate on this new timeline, but is he for real? Or is this nice thing just a cover? — Daniel

All signs so far point to it being entirely genuine. At least, that’s what I think after talking to Pinkner and Wyman. “We thought it would be interesting, from Peter’s point of view, that he’s returned to a timeline that doesn’t meet his expectations,” says Pinkner. While Wyman reveals the truth: “Another interesting thing is that Jeff’s mother really wanted him to be nicer. We’re always trying to please our mothers.” He was joking. I think.

See the entire Entertainment Weekly article here.




fo note: "He said it so we have to take it as gospel."
 For me, this confirms my theory that the theme of "White Tulip"- Dr. Peck trying to save the always dying Arlette is a parallel to Peter trying to save the always dying Olivia(s).

Fringe Promotional Photos: 409 Enemy of my Enemy

Here are promotional photos for the Fringe episode "Enemy of my Enemy".

Click the image above to see the full sized photos, or visit FringeFiles.com for more promotional photos, screenshots, and other Fringe images.

Fringe: Joshua Jackson on Peter's Destiny

Fringe: Joshua Jackson on Peter's Destiny
Jackson talks about what's to come and whether this could be the final season for the sci-fi series
January 19, 2012
by Eric Goldman

Note: Spoilers for all of Fringe: Season 4 so far, up through last week's "Back to Where You've Never Been," follow.

Talking to Joshua Jackson about Fringe is always a lot of fun. Why? Because despite being one of the stars of the show, Jackson is also a true fan of Fringe, and loves to speculate and theorize just as much as those of us watching at home.

Along with a small group of other journalists, I recently spoke to Jackson about this current season of Fringe, the big two-parter that we're right in the middle of (with part 2 airing this week), the show's ever-uncertain future and more.


Question: Can you talk about Peter coming face to face with Walternate in last week's episode?
Jackson: Well, it's sort of Hail Mary pass on Peter's part. He's pretty desperate. In the whole way that he contrives to get himself over there, he's obviously desperate. He's sort of run out of ideas. I think there's always the sort of added complication for Peter, not just with Walternate, but when he sees his mother, there's so much that is wrapped up in that relationship with his mom and the guilt over the loss of his original mom. So I think it's an extremely flawed situation. And for Peter, he has this real, deep sense that he's in the wrong place, and he needs to get home by any means necessary. So I think Walternate is the very, very last person that he would ever go to, and that shows the level of desperation that he has to try and ask that man to help him.


- FOXQuestion: Do you think this season needs to end with a return to the original timeline?
Jackson: I really have no idea which way we're headed this year, which has not been the case before. I've always had a fairly reasonable sort of sketch idea in my head of what the season was about. If you had pitched me the idea, I would have said, "Oh, well, obviously. It's like the journey back home." But now we've spent many, many, many, many episodes with this group of people, so I'm not sure that it's satisfying to just leave them. So I don't know where they're headed as far as that goes because I think if we just pulled the rip cord on this new group of people and went back to our old people, the significant amount of the audience would be like, "Well, why did I get so invested in these people?" So I don't know how they're going to resolve it, and we haven't gotten to that place in the story yet, but that seems to me like that's going to be the crisis of the season. But at this point, I don't think it would be a satisfying resolution to just get back to the other place.


Question: Peter really seems to believe now that this is not the timeline he was living in, and that he has to get somewhere else, rather than the possibility that it is where he's from – but everyone else has been changed. How important or not important is that distinction?
Jackson: Well, it becomes important -- I think that's a distinct possibility. The three possibilities are, this is actually the original timeline, just the timeline itself has changed by him being erased; it is not the original timeline and he needs to get back home; or it is not the original timeline and he needs to stay because this is where he was supposed to end up. In my head those are the three possibilities. So if it is the original timeline, the important distinction for him is that since, as I understand the Peter character now, what he really serves as is as a mirror to the characters around him, right?

In the second half of Season 1 and Season 2, when this show was more about the family dynamic and less about the star-crossed lovers, he was really the reflection for Walter so you could see his humanity coming back. Because without Peter, you don't get to see the other side of the mad scientist. But also in Season 2, and definitely in Season 3, Peter's job was to reflect Olivia back to herself so we could get to the bottom of her crisis, which was feeling unseen, unknown. So her crisis last year was, "I cannot love you until I know that you see the real me," right? But Peter's job in that was only to reflect back to her her own crisis. So this year, I think what the thrust of the story seems to be so far is Olivia doesn't know herself. So Peter's job is to reflect back to her herself, so she can come to know herself. In Season 2 I thought this was going to be about the bizarro family, but now I think this show is really about the Olivia character discovering herself. In a bizarre way I think this show now is a coming of age drama for a woman.


Question: Talking with you or John [Noble] or Anna [Torv], it's Season 4 and you guys are still really, really invested in the show and the characters…
Jackson: And about 99% wrong in my predictions. [Laughs]


Question: But you're still theorizing, and you're still a fan of the show. Whereas a lot of people I talk to at this point in a series have kind of checked out. Do you feel like the reinvention of the characters every season has reinvigorated you guys?
Jackson: I think that certainly helps... And look, I have my good days, and I have my bad days. There are certainly 5am calls where I think to myself, "What am I doing here? It is raining, and it is cold, and I want out now!" But in general, I love what I do for a living. You know, I don't work at a salt mine. It's pretty awesome. It would just suck to be the guy who's just going through the motions four years into a show when this is kind of -- at least for me -- the greatest gig ever. Not just Fringe. Being an actor is just a kick-ass job.

Read the entire IGN TV article here.

Spoilery Set Report regarding the kiss

Spoilery Set Report regarding the kiss
from Sarah Lucia via SpoilerTV

So when I got to the set it was all lit up brightly with big lighting fixtures all around. I had to wait quite awhile until they started filming again. I think I arrived just as they had finished filming the scene. So I stood in the cold just waiting around until they started rolling again. While I was waiting around I saw that Josh was still on set and he was talking to the crew members, like usual. Finally after about 10 minutes, or so (felt like so much longer), they started rolling again. In the scene, I saw Peter (Joshua Jackson) walking across the street towards Olivia (Anna Torv) and then she comes walking towards him and they give each other a big hug, Peter almost picks Olivia up off the ground when he hugs her and then they embrace in a very strong passionate kiss. It was a mighty good kiss I must say. Wasn't just a peck or a simple "hi" kiss. It was a full on embracing, hugging, very close passionate kiss. It was definitely a kiss you do not want to miss. After they kiss for a long moment they talked to each other.


They were obviously in our universe, due to Olivia's outfit (unless for some reason Olivia is the parallel universe dressed as herself). So it looked almost as if this were a real scene, because of the way they were dressed, not a dream. I could be wrong but the way they were dressed it seemed so real to me. But then again I could be wrong and it could be just another one of Peter's dreams, or maybe Olivia's??? But it seemed to normal to be one of Peter's dreams. In Peter's dreams they are usually a little bit more "out there". Ex. Shirtless Walter cooking in the kitchen.


Read Sarah's entire entry at SpoilerTV here.

Fringe - Episode 4.11 - Making Angels - Press Release

Fringe - Episode 4.11 - Making Angels - Press Release

Posted by b3rt4 at Friday, January 13, 2012


UNIVERSES COLLIDE ON AN ALL-NEW "FRINGE" FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, ON FOX

Our Astrid gets an unexpected visit from her Alternate, while Peter and Olivia track a killer using a toxin that has yet to be invented. Both universes collide in a case that pushes the boundaries of what is possible in the all-new "Making Angels" episode of FRINGE airing Friday, Feb. 3 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (FR-411) (TV-14 L, V)

Read the entire SpoilerTV post here.


(Hmm. Anyone thinking of "Stowaway"?)

Interesting Filming Notice for 1/18 Shows Up On Tumblr

This filming notice for 1/18 showed up on Tumblr yesterday.
Check out what's written within the red area. It reads: "a scene of our two main actors meeting on the street and engaging in a kiss."

So, which 2 'main actors' are they talking about here?

Offer your opinions below!

See the original Tumblr post here.

'Fringe' signs Michael Massee to play villain

'Fringe' signs Michael Massee to play villain

Published Thursday, Jan 12 2012, 11:43am EST
By Morgan Jeffery


Michael Massee has signed up for a role on Fox's Fringe.

The FlashForward and 24 star will appear in the 15th episode of the sci-fi drama's fourth season, according to TV Guide.

"His character promises to be one of the most memorable guest bad guys we've ever had," said executive producer Joel Wyman. "[Expect] a terrifying journey with a man pushed to the limits by intense loneliness."

No other details about Massee's character are currently known.

The actor has recently appeared in episodes of House and Rizzoli & Isles, while his film credits include 1995's Se7en and 1997's Amistad.

Read the entire Digital Spy article here.

Fringe Midseason Premiere Review:Back with a Vengeance

Fringe Midseason Premiere Review: Back with a Vengeance



Written By Sam McPherson
January 10th, 2012
 Fringe returns on January 13 with "Back to Where You've Never Been," the episode that should have been the midseason finale before it was pushed back by the World Series. And while Fringe left us on the oddly pensive note that was "Wallflower," Friday's episode will make it obvious that the series meant to go to the winter hiatus with a bang. "Back to Where You've Never Been" is the best episode of season 4 so far, better than previous title holders "Novation" and "And Those We've Left Behind." The episode marks the season gaining momentum after a few episodes of spinning its wheels, and at least in one regard, that momentum is going somewhere. Fringe is back, baby.

Peter seems to have been growing as frustrated as we were with just sitting around, and in this episode, he takes initiative. As the countless trailers and promos released for this episode have indicated, he hatches a plan to the alternate universe, which seems more familiar than our universe, because the ramifications of his disappearance aren't nearly as severe. Of course, that doesn't mean that everyone is friendly. Things don't go smoothly at all (but did you really expect them to?).

Read Sam McPherson's entire TV Overmind article here.